In January 2007, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly wanted to make sure that his department was doing everything necessary to minimize the unnecessary discharge of firearms. He asked the RAND Corporation to examine the quality and completeness of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) firearm-training program and identify potential improvements in the design and delivery of the......

Publisher: RAND CorporatioPublished Time: RAND CorporatioPages: 118In recent years, Arizona and California overwhelmingly passed ballot initiatives that were expected to divert minor, nonviolent drug offenders from incarceration-jail and prison-to treatment. With respect to the prison population, it was unknown whether low-level drug offenders had a violent or lengthy criminal history that made pr......

Take Charge of Your DiabetesPublisher: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2007Number of pages: 146Description:People with diabetes often have stories to share about their struggles for balance and harmony in their lives. We can honor people by listening to and learning from their stories to find meaning and hope for our own lives.......

As demand for water increases, water managers and planners will need to look widely for ways to improve water management and augment water supplies. This book concludes that artificial recharge can be one option in an integrated strategy to optimize total water resource management and that in some cases impaired-quality water can be used effectively as a source for artificial recharge of ground wa......

Health Systems Consultants, Inc. asked RAND to assess the comparative ability of two severity-adjusted patient classification systems to explain variation in Medicare costs per discharge. The two systems evaluated in the study are the Medicare-severity adjusted DRG (MS-DRG) system that Medicare adopted effective October 1, 2007 and Health System Consultants, Inc.'s Refined-DRGs (RDRGs), version 21......

Rating:Not yet rated.Published: June 16, 2011Category: Non-Fiction»Career Guides»MediaWords: 2808 (approximate)Language: EnglishEbookDescriptionYes, blogging can be a lot of work but it can also be a GREAT way to help readers who are on the fence about buying your book discover just exactly how you’re different from every other YA author out there. So in the spirit of seeing blogging......

An examination of the possibility of Echo-type satellites maintaining their shape by acquiring negative electrostatic potentials in the outer Van Allen belt. Based on calculations of the repulsive force of these potentials versus the principal forces tending to cause satellite collapse, it is concluded that the charge-up method of maintaining satellite shape would probably not be useful for opaque......

Principles of Charged Particle Accelerationby Stanley HumphriesPublisher: Wiley-Interscience 1999ISBN/ASIN: 0471878782ISBN-13: 9780471878780Number of pages: 593Description:An introductory text on the physics of charged particle acceleration and transport. Both low energy and high energy accelerators are covered, so that the material is relevant to a wide variety of applications. Provides a detaile......

A collection of discussion papers, prepared by RAND staff and others, that analyze the most critical foreign and national security issues facing the United States, both during the early days of the incoming presidential administration and in the long term. These papers were commissioned by Transition 2001, a bipartisan panel of about 60 American leaders in the areas of foreign and defense policy. ......